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On 2012-01-28 demerphq wrote: > You say that you consider "\n" to contain only one line. > > But what about "\nfoo". Does it contain one or two lines? Do you > expect ^ to match after the \n in "\nfoo"? If you do then do you not > agree there is an inconsistency about it not matching after the \n in > "\n"? "\nfoo" contains 1.5 lines, i.e. one complete (but empty) line and one incomplete (unterminated) line. "\nfoo" =~ /^foo/m should match, yes. I don't think there's an inconsistency because \n is only the beginning of a line if more text follows. That is, my model of /^/m is /(?:\A|(?<=\n)(?!\z))/. > Because to me that is the exact same thing as expecting /.*/ to match > at the end of the string in "\n". > > So really the bug here is in ^ not in .* That doesn't match my intuitive understanding of "beginning of line".Thread Previous | Thread Next